Posts Tagged materials
Materials Science – Self Darkening Materials
Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on January 19th, 2010
Self darkening glass has been and still is one of the more interesting inventions that came from the domain of chemistry as a science, along with materials science. Although today there are also lenses made of plastic, here we will mention the early versions of lenses used in optics, that were bassed on glass as the primary material.
This type of self darkening glass basically works by reacting to ultraviolet rays that come from the sun. Read the rest of this entry »
About The Chemistry Of Steel
Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on January 8th, 2010
Materials science, together with the science of chemistry, examines many interesting materials. One of the most commonly used and most well known is a material known as steel.
Steel is a basically a material that, in most cases, contains up to 5% of carbon that, in the combination with iron, forms a very hard iron carbide. Read the rest of this entry »
On materials science
Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on November 27th, 2009
Materials science is one of the most quickly emerging sciences, that were formed in relatively recent times. Although materials have since always been a very important part in our lives, they become subject of more extensive scientific research in the 19. and 20. Read the rest of this entry »